Claremont Mormon Studies Conference Schedule: “Community, Authority, and Identity”

By January 30, 2015

Screen Shot 2015-01-30 at 10.04.15 AM[Looks like a great program, including a smattering of JIers–always a good sign for a successful conference.]

Claremont Mormon Studies Conference
Community, Authority, and Identity
Claremont Graduate University
March 6-7, 2015

Albrecht Auditorium
925 N. Dartmouth Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

4:00 Welcome and Introduction
Tammi J. Schneider?Claremont Graduate University

4:10-5:30 Mormon Authority and Tradition(s)

  • Robert Couch?Willamette University: “Scripture and Authority in the Mormon Tradition”
  • Shelby Hamm?Claremont Graduate University: “Conflicting Perceptions of Priesthood & Its Powers”
  • Thomas G. Evans?Claremont Graduate University: “Priesthood, Prophecy, and the Failure of ?The Word of the Lord?”

Keynote Address ? 7:30 p.m.

  • J. Spencer Fluhman?Brigham Young University: “Secrets and the Making of American Mormonism”

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

9:00-10:20 Mormon Identity in a Digital Age

  • Hillary Kirkham?Claremont Graduate University: “Rebranding Mormonism: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? ?I?m a Mormon? Campaign and the Reclamation of Mormon Identity”
  • Saskia Tielens?Technische Universität Dortmund: “Breaking the Mold: The Construction of Identity and Authority in an Online Christian Context”
  • Rosemary Avance?University of Pennsylvania: “Shifting Mormon Identity and the Internet”

10:30-11:30 Community and Contested Reception

  • Samuel Alonzo Dodge?Lehigh University: “God?s Wisdom or Man?s: Mormon Identity and Competing Interpretations of the Word of Wisdom Revelation”
  • Steven C. Harper?LDS Church History Department: Identity, Community, and the Contest for Joseph Smith?s First Vision”

11:45-12:45 Community and Ritual in the 19th Century

  • Justin Bray?University of Utah: “?That We May Be One?: The Lord?s Supper and Community Worship, 1850-1900”
  • Kristine Wright?Independent Scholar: “?How discouraging to be sick so much?: Chronicity, Ritual Failure and Mormon Identity”

1:00 Lunch provided for all attendees

2:00-3:20 History as Identity

  • Benjamin E. Park?University of Missouri: “The Gendered Politics of Mormon Identity: Two Nineteenth Century Examples”
  • Rachel Hunt Steenblik?Claremont Graduate University: “Mormon Women Write: Reclaiming the Words of Those who have Slumbered in the Dust”
  • J.B. Haws?Brigham Young University: “A Mentor and a Mentality: Shaping a Generation of Mormon Historians”

Article filed under Announcements and Events


Comments

  1. I am looking forward to it!

    Comment by Saskia — January 30, 2015 @ 6:06 am

  2. 🙁 That looks like a load of fun! Hopefully some of these presentations will be published elsewhere.

    I’ll be going to Missouri State soon, but if I chose U of Missouri, it would have been cool to have an LDS professor to talk about Mormon things with.

    Comment by Katherine Pollock — January 30, 2015 @ 6:28 am


Series

Recent Comments

Mark Ashurst-McGee on Study and Faith, 3:: “I just love this: "historians should be more like detectives and jurors than lawyers"”


Steve Fleming on Study and Faith, 2:: “I'm sad to say that "Everything Everywhere" is the only movie I've ever walked out of (long story of a combination of tending to fall…”


Steve Fleming on Thoughts on Study and: “Thanks for commenting T.M. I wrote my dissertation on JS's ideas and have been revising it (with a ton more research) and I'd declared myself…”


Adam F. on Study and Faith, 2:: “Sorry if this sounds like a threadjump, but your statement about humans' need for meaning over nihilism just screams "Everything Everywhere All at Once" at…”


T.M. Overley on Thoughts on Study and: “No need to defend “truth claims.” Often, such claims are mere impositions of man—which, it seems, Joseph Smith was acutely aware. To this date, the…”


Steve Fleming on Thoughts on Study and: “Thanks, Brent. Sorry I missed this. Get some more posts up soon.”

Topics


juvenileinstructor.org